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Comparison Of Communism In Russia And China

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Communism in Russia vs. China In both Russia and China, they used the ideologies of Karl Marx to influence the way their country was run. Communism has been present in both China and Russia for quite some time. While they may have occurred at different times and had slowly started to drift apart in similarities, they still have a few things in common.
In 1848, a man by the name of Karl Marx founded communism as an ideology. Marx believed that private property would have public ownership to be used for major production purposes. These now public properties consisted of factories, mines, mills, etc., which needed to be controlled by an elite class. Marx also focused on giving the people the equality which everyone naturally had (Dagger, Richard). …show more content…

After hearing about the recent coup, throwing out the czar, Lenin came back to Russia from his exiled in Switzerland. Using his charisma and status, he helped kick start another revolution which knocked out the makeshift democracy. This made a place for the Bolsheviks (communists) to place themselves in a position of power in the government. (Rashid, Aatif). Lenin came to be an influential person in the Bolshevik party and used Karl Marx’s ideas to make Communism in Russia blossom. Two major things he did were make private industry and agriculture public and redistributed the land of wealthy proprietors to peasants. This went well for a few years, until the Russian Civil War ended in 1920. While they came out victorious, Russia was left in disaster. The economic productivity was insufficient and the people were starving and unhappy. Because of this, Lenin was desperate for a new change to benefit the people, so he announced the New Economic Policy. The state took control of large industries again, but people were encouraged to have private and individual businesses. Soon after this was out in place, another major change was about to occur in the Russian government. This occurred after Lenin died in 1924. Joseph Stalin took over his place and became the leader of the Communist Party. He began intimidating and doubting his rivals while also claiming to see spies everywhere. He cleared the party and general population of Russia or these so called “spies.” By executing or exiling rebels to Siberia, he struck fear into those who remained after his purging. Everyone lived in fear of Stalin’s secret police and he ruled over Russia with an iron fist from that point on until his death (Dagger,

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